Patents Examined by Jason Harley
  • Patent number: 11172535
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing an incident event by a public safety and security organization. The methods comprise: performing Near Field Communication (“NFC”) or Radio Frequency Identification (“RFID”) operations by a Land Mobile Radio (“LMR”) and a field computing device to check-in a field personnel member into an incident event; communicating check-in information to a remote computing device from the field computing device via a packet switched LMR infrastructure or a public network; and using the check-in information by the remote computing device to facilitate management of the incident event by the by public safety and security organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: EAGLE TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jothi Muthukrishnan, Jason Moore, Thomas Fariss
  • Patent number: 11133998
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a system for measuring a network delay are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring delay measurement information obtained by measuring a service flow by at least one target logical port TLP, where the delay measurement information includes: timestamp information, a service flow identifier, and a TLP identifier; and transmitting the delay measurement information to a measurement control point MCP, so that the MCP determines details about a network delay according to the timestamp information, the service flow identifier, and the TLP identifier. Embodiments of the present application further provide an apparatus and a system for measuring a network delay. Embodiments of the present application achieve direct and accurate delay measurement of a service flow in scenarios of point to point transmission or point to multipoint transmission on the network, and reflect details about a real delay of the service flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Fang, Hongming Liu, Wenjun Chang
  • Patent number: 11128576
    Abstract: A method is implemented by a networking device functioning as a computing node. The method resolves sub-trees of a loosely specified multicast distribution tree (MDT). The method utilizes global identifiers for sub-trees of the MDT to enable differentiation of traffic destined for different sub-trees of the MDT at shared replication nodes. The method can be implemented at or for each of the nodes of the network that are part of the MDT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: David Ian Allan
  • Patent number: 11122475
    Abstract: Handover criteria for wireless networks are provided. A base station (BS) transmits, to a user equipment (UE), a configuration for at least one measurement event to be used for a handover of the UE from a source cell to one of a set of neighbor cells, wherein the configuration includes at least a configured rank criterion for triggering a measurement report in response to the measurement event. The BS receives, from the UE, the measurement report based on the configuration, the measurement report at least including a measured rank value for one or more reported cells in the set. The BS selects a target cell from the reported cells for the handover based at least on the received measured rank values, and transmits a handover command to the UE for the handover to the selected target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Akash Kumar, Hargovind Prasad Bansal
  • Patent number: 11121747
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a receiving unit that receives a first signal storing first information with which precision or accuracy of transmission power is recognized; and a transmission unit that transmits a second signal regarding permission of multiple access that allows simultaneous communication with at least one first wireless communication device identified on the basis of the first information. A wireless communication device includes: a transmission unit that transmits a first signal storing first information with which precision or accuracy of transmission power is recognized; a receiving unit that receives a second signal regarding permission of multiple access that allows simultaneous communication after the transmission of the first signal; and a control unit that controls transmission of a third signal on the basis of the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11108532
    Abstract: In a method of wireless communication, a UE receives a configuration to receive a CIF for a serving cell of a plurality of serving cells. In addition, the UE monitors a PDCCH on a primary cell of the plurality of serving cells. Said primary cell is different than said serving cell. Furthermore, the UE assumes information received in the PDCCH is for said primary cell when the received information has a common payload size and is in a common search space with a first CCE index in the common search space being equal to a first CCE index in a UE specific search space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tao Luo, Wanshi Chen, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 11108592
    Abstract: A request to establish a tunnel over a layer three network connection may be received by a proxy device. The tunnel may then be established by the proxy device. Device information and wireless network information from a mobile device may be received over the tunnel. Responsive to receipt of the device information and the wireless network information, source and destination addresses may be assigned to the mobile device. The source and destination addresses may correspond to the device information and the wireless network information. Internet protocol (IP) packets may be received, via the tunnel, from the mobile device. Layer two frames may be generated utilizing the assigned source and destination addresses. The layer two frames may encapsulate each of the IP packets. The layer two frames may be transmitted to a layer two service function chain (SFC) infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey L. Finkelstein
  • Patent number: 11102267
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods and apparatuses for server- and network-assisted dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transport protocol signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yifan Yu, Ozgur Oyman, Yuan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11101967
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a configuration for a control resource set (CORESET) of a shared radio frequency spectrum carrier. The UE may identify a bitmap included in the configuration. Each bit in the bitmap may be associated with a respective control resource block group. The UE may identify, based at least in part on a value for each bit in the bitmap, one or more control resource block groups that are included in the CORESET. The UE may monitor for downlink communications in the one or more control resource block groups. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Huilin Xu, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11082834
    Abstract: A user apparatus includes an information storage unit configured to store band combination information indicating a combination of bands that can be used in carrier aggregation in the user apparatus, and a notification control unit configured to explicitly or implicitly add, to the band combination information, capability information indicating whether the user apparatus is able to set a primary cell by using a band of a first duplex mode in the carrier aggregation, and to notify a base station of the band combination information to which the capability information is added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Kazuki Takeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11074615
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for reducing communications between servers and a mobile device and providing enhanced security and privacy to wireless beacon services. This can involve a broadcast device transmitting a beacon transmission using a short range wireless radio, such a Bluetooth or WiFi, and including a MAC address, a first unique identifier, and a beacon service identifier. The mobile device then selects one or more unique identifiers from received beacon transmissions, by filtering (that is, selecting) those beacon transmissions which include the beacon service identifier. The wireless device then takes further action, if the first unique identifier is present among the selected one or more unique identifiers, using stored information from the server. The stored information may be delivered to the wireless device in response to the wireless device sending the first unique identifier to a server, or the stored information may have been previously downloaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Proxicom Wireless LLC
    Inventors: James A. Proctor, James Arthur Proctor, III
  • Patent number: 11070961
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a V2X communication method and apparatus. The method is applicable for a V2X node and includes: detecting a downlink control channel whose CRC code is scrambled by a V-RNTI relevant to the V2X node; and receiving V2X data information on a corresponding downlink data channel according to an indication of the detected downlink control channel. In the present disclosure, the receiving V2X node is able to receive V2X data information selectively, which avoids useless data receiving and data processing operations of the receiving V2X node, reduces the number of downlink control channels and downlink data channels to be detected and processed by the receiving V2X node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shichang Zhang, Yi Wang, Yingyang Li, Jingxing Fu
  • Patent number: 11070346
    Abstract: Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a base station and method therein, for configuring control timing to and from a user equipment in a multiple component cell communications network. Example embodiments presented herein are also directed towards a user equipment and method therein, for configuration of control timing for a user equipment in a multiple component cell communications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jung-Fu Cheng, Robert Baldemair, Mattias Frenne, Dirk Gerstenberger, Daniel Larsson
  • Patent number: 11064534
    Abstract: A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method by a terminal configured with at least one serving cell for performing a random access (RA) procedure is provided. The method includes measuring downlink reference signal received power (DL RSRP) of a serving cell on which the RA procedure is initiated, determining whether the DL RSRP of the serving cell is greater than a threshold, and performing a two-step RA procedure based on the DL RSRP of the serving cell being greater than the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Anil Agiwal, Jaehyuk Jang
  • Patent number: 11057837
    Abstract: A device, such as a base station or user equipment (UE), may identify a narrowband reference signal (NB-RS) energy per resource element (EPRE) for a NB-RS to be transmitted in a wireless transmission. The device may identify a ratio of a narrowband physical downlink shared channel (N-PDSCH) EPRE to the NB-RS EPRE for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols containing neither a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) nor a NB-RS. In deployments where NB transmissions are transmitted in a guard-band adjacent to a wideband system bandwidth, a device may identify a second ratio for N-PDSCH EPRE to CRS EPRE within OFDM symbols containing CRS. In deployments where NB transmissions are transmitted in-band with the wideband system bandwidth, a device may identify a third ratio of NB-RS EPRE to CRS EPRE, and a fourth ratio of N-PDSCH EPRE to NB-RS EPRE within OFDM symbols containing NB-RS transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Hao Xu, Xiao Feng Wang, Renqiu Wang
  • Patent number: 11051304
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for selecting a carrier for a sidelink communication in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives an indication of an aggregated set of carriers among multiple carriers from the network. The aggregated set of carriers may be aggregated based on a destination of the sidelink communication. The UE selects a carrier among the aggregated set of carriers, selects a resource of the selected carrier, and performs the sidelink communication by using the selected resource of the selected carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngdae Lee, Jaewook Lee, Jongwoo Hong
  • Patent number: 11050601
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to adaptive modulation and coding scheme selection and signaling in a communication system. In particular, a modulation and coding scheme to be used for transmission of a data is selected from a set of predetermined modulation and coding schemes. The predetermination of the set is performed by selecting the set from a plurality of predefined sets. The sets have the same size, so that a modulation and coding selection indicator signaled to select the modulation and coding scheme may be advantageously applied to any of the selected sets. Moreover, a second set includes schemes with a modulation not covered by the schemes of a first set, and which is of a higher order than any modulation in the first set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Michael Einhaus, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Joachim Loehr, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 11044067
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a configuration for a control resource set (CORESET) of a shared radio frequency spectrum carrier. The UE may identify a bitmap included in the configuration. Each bit in the bitmap may be associated with a respective control resource block group. The UE may identify, based at least in part on a value for each bit in the bitmap, one or more control resource block groups that are included in the CORESET. The UE may monitor for downlink communications in the one or more control resource block groups. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Sun, Huilin Xu, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11025367
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes a determiner configured to determine if a codeword included in a data signal corresponds to a reference codeword included in a first set of reference codewords or a second set of reference codewords; a first estimator configured to estimate a first channel quality metric value for the data signal based on a first channel quality metric, if the codeword corresponds to a reference codeword included in the first set of reference codewords, wherein the first channel quality value is smaller than a reference channel quality metric value for the data signal, wherein the reference channel quality metric value for the data signal results from a channel quality estimation based on a predetermined channel quality metric; and a second estimator configured to estimate a second channel quality metric value for the data signal based on a second channel quality metric, if the codeword corresponds to a reference codeword included in the second set of reference codewords, wherein the second
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Yeong-Sun Hwang, Franz Eder, Matthias Muennich, Ziyang Ju, Carlo Tosetti, Anchit Malhotra
  • Patent number: 11026288
    Abstract: A discontinuous reception method, a terminal, and a network device are provided. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, discontinuous reception DRX parameter information corresponding to configuration parameter information supported by the terminal; and enabling DRX by using the obtained DRX parameter information. The method is applied to a communications system, the communications system supports N groups of configuration parameters, and each group of configuration parameters is corresponding to a group of discontinuous reception DRX parameters. A DRX parameter is corresponding to a configuration parameter, and the DRX parameter is adaptively and flexibly adjusted when the configuration parameter is flexibly adjusted based on a service in a network, so that the terminal is better balanced between a latency and power consumption, and the terminal can better adapt to a communications network with a larger system capacity, a lower latency, higher network reliability, and better network availability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Xie, Yalin Liu